“The ‘historic’ novel is, for me, condemned … to a fatal cheapness,” Henry James once wrote a fellow novelist — and to my mind the biographical novel suffers from the same affliction. Whether the ...
Work by the National Trust to restore the writing desk of author Henry James will feature in a new series of the BBC's Hidden Treasures television programme. James lived at Lamb House in Rye, East ...
“On Writers and Writing” gathers 21 pieces by the great author, including a confident critique of Dickens when James was just 22 Whatever else it may be, a piece of literary criticism is also always a ...
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